Some Latter-day Saints (Mormons)who have won the Pulitzer Prize

This is a list of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) who have won the Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer Prize is generally considered the highest award granted in American literature. This is probably not a complete list, but includes all of the individuals we are aware of.

All of the individuals in the first list except Bernard De Voto were practicing Latter-day Saints at the time they received the Pulitzer Prize. (Benson later left the Church.)

A separate list highlights Pulitzer Prize-winning literature in which main characters are Latter-day Saints. Allen Drury and Tony Kushner received Pulitzer Prizes for writing which featured fictional Latter-day Saint characters. But Drury and Kushner themselves were not Latter-day Saints.

Author

Year

Category

Work

Jack Anderson

1972

journalism

investigative reporting that exposed the fact that theNixon administration was aiding Pakistan while claiming neutrality in the India-Pakistan War

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

1991

history

A Midwife's Tale

Merlo J. Pusey

1952

biography

Charles Evans Hughes

Steve Benson

1993

editorial cartoons

Arizona Republic staff editorial cartoonist

Bernard De Voto

1948

history

Across the Wide Missouri

Pulitzer Prize-Winning LiteratureIn Which Main Characters are Latter-day Saints

Author

Year

Category

Work

Allen Drury

1960

literature

Advise and Consent

Wallace Stegner *

1971

literature

Angle of Repose

Tony Kushner

1993

drama

Angels in America

* Wallace Stegner: Major characters in Stegner's Pulitzer-winning novel Angle of Repose are Latter-day Saints. Although Stegner was a native of Utah and much of his writing focused on Latter-day Saint history, he himself was not a Latter-day Saint.

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